Somatotopic direct projections from orofacial areas of primary somatosensory cortex to pons and medulla, especially to trigeminal sensory nuclear complex, in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 200, Issue , 2012, Pages 166-185

  Tomita, A ^a   Kato, T ^a   Sato, F ^a   Haque, T ^a   Oka, A ^a   Yamamoto, M ^a   Ono, T ^a   Bae, Y C ^b   Maeda, Y ^a   Sessle, B J ^c   Yoshida, A ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticofugal; Feedback; SI; Somatotopy; Topography

Indexed keywords

BIOTINYLATED DEXTRANAMINE; FLUOROGOLD; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FRONTAL NERVE; INFRAORBITAL NERVE; LINGUAL NERVE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MENTAL NERVE; MESENCEPHALIC TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARATRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; PONS; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; RECORDING; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOTOPY; SUPRATRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL MOTOR NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL SENSORY NUCLEAR COMPLEX;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEXTRANS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FACE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84855206829     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.10.048     Document Type: Article

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